fschmidt
Moral alternatives to modern culture –
Modern culture is evil. What are the alternatives to modern culture? Before discussing alternatives that I think can work, I will discuss alter...
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fschmidt
I updated this post to reflect my current thinking.
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fschmidt
Moved to "Chatter" because it seems to me now that only Islam works.
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Secular Koranism
It has been said that Islam is "Judaism Lite".
I then had the idea of "Islam Lite" - Secular Koranism.
http://thevoiceo...
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fschmidt
Secularism doesn't work. You call your site "Voice of Reason" but in fact most people don't have the intelligence to reason, so they sh...
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Peter
While intelligent Muslims make good Mikraites, Mikraites will make bad
Muslims.
On Sat, Jan 21, 2017 at 7:47 PM fschmidt [via Mikraite] <
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Secular Koranism
Secular Koranism is a legal system, not a belief system –
I don't think you quite understand the nature of Secular Koranism. It is a legal system infused with Koranic principles whose rules people of fait...
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fschmidt
Yes it wasn't clear to me that Secular Koranism is just a legal system. In that case, I am honestly not that interested in it because I don't thi...
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Secular Koranism
Once you have a laws that reflect God's morality, you lay the foundation for belief again. We must not put the cart before the horse.
It is e...
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fschmidt
Show me one successful culture in history that wasn't based on a strong religion. There isn't any. Religion is a necessary condition for a succe...
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Secular Koranism
Not all religions have deities. Buddhism is an atheist religion.
Religion is necessary because it is necessarily and logically the basis of o...
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fschmidt
I think you are missing what religion is about. Religion has these elements:
1. A shared narrative, usually found in sacred texts, which is t...
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Secular Koranism
How are laws "almost irrelevant" if they punish immoral behaviour?
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Secular Koranism
In what way is Islam fatalistic?
What tweaks would you suggest to Islam?
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fschmidt
One example:
https://www.islamicboard.com/comparative-religion/134343332-islam-defeated-plato.html#post2939274
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Secular Koranism
"While intelligent Muslims make good Mikraites, Mikraites will make bad Muslims."
Why do you say that?
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Secular Koranism
Why do you call Orthodox Judaism "racist"?
It is after all possible for a gentile to convert to Orthodox Judaism, even if the process...
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fschmidt
Racist just means discriminating by race. Someone who is racially jewish gets a free pass to Judaism regardless of his beliefs or actions, whil...
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fschmidt
I have updated the section on Islam, moving it from options that don't work to options that work.